The cancer diet involves carefully selecting foods which have demonstrated health-giving properties and offer some protection against various forms of cancer. Numerous studies have shown the beneficial effects of specific foods in helping to prevent cancer or restore good health. Here are some that you should know about.

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The Cancer Diet – 8 Things You Must Eat to Keep Cancer Away

By Shelley Penney

Cancer statistics are exploding. Some studies say that 1 out of every 2 people will develop some form of cancer in their lifetime. The reality is staggering. Not only is the monetary cost of cancer a huge burden on individuals and society, but the emotional toll is huge as well.

The cure for this disease which plagues and terrifies us is an easy one. Get the proper nutrients into your body every day. Think about this for a moment and really take it in. Your body regenerates almost all of it’s cells on a cycle of every 7-10 years. It will use whatever building materials it has at hand to make those cells. It is my belief that cells made of artificial colors, junk foods void of nutrition, additives and chemicals, these cells will be the starting cells of tomorrows cancers.

The sooner you start eating better, the better your chances of never developing cancer at all. If you already have cancer, then you will need more help in the way of supplements along with changing your dietary habits. The more damage the cancer has done, the less likelihood there is of a complete reversal.

Keeping those points in mind, here are the foods to eat to stop this terrible in it’s tracks.

1. Broccoli- Cruciferous vegetables like broccoli and cabbage have sulforaphane, a component which has been proven by science to stop cancer growth.
2. Tomatoes- Lycopene is just one of the compenents of this healthy fruit that has been studied extensively for it’s disease fighting properties. People who eat tomatoes at least 2 times a week have 33% less chance of developing this plague. (Tomatoes and broccoli eaten together have an effect greater than if one is eaten separately from the other)
3. Mushrooms- Mushrooms contain beta glucans. Medicinal mushrooms like red reishi, maitake, shiitake, cordyceps, and agaricus blazei have been extensively studied. These mushrooms have been shown in hundreds of thousands of scientific research studies to prevent or cure cancer. In fact there is even a patented extract of mushrooms that is prescribed by doctors in Asia to complement traditional chemotherapy.
4. Green Tea- Another gift from our friends in Asia, green tea is loaded with catechins and polyphenols… big words that mean big anti-cancer benefits for you.
5. Berries- the powerful anthocyanins in berries will help to turn off the growth of cancer.
6. Salmon- and other fatty fish, as well as olive oil, avocado… these are all rich sources of omega 3 fatty acids. Omega 3 fatty acids are absolutely necessary for cell reproduction and healing, and are sorely lacking in our diets. Make sure you get wild pacific or alaskan salmon, as most atlantic salmon is now farmed which means it is also filled with antibiotics and has less omega 3 fatty acids than their wild counterparts.
7. Garlic- has been proven to reduce the occurance of stomach, breast and esophagus tumors.
8. Camu Camu- Many people still haven’t heard about Camu Camu or Acerola but I mention them because they are a super concentrated natural form of vitamin C. You absolutely MUST have vitamin C, and lots of it, if you hope to fight cancer and stay healthy. Vitamin C is absolutely essential in the healing process, and a nutrient that is often overlooked. Most people would benefit from large amounts of vitamin C supplementation if these high C fruits (or powders) aren’t available in grocery or health food stores.

I hope that you are getting the picture that an anti-cancer diet is one that is made up of real foods. You won’t see cheez stiks or french fries or a bacon double cheese burger on any list of cancer fighters. You must give your body building block and healing nutrients every single day and these are delivered to us naturally from the earth.

Eat well and fight off cancer.

Shelley Penney is a retired registered nurse with a continued, insatiable thirst for health and wellness information. Although Shelley hails from traditional medical training, she is always searching for ways in which the natural world of healing herbs, foods and supplements can intersect with traditional medicine and benefit us all. Visit Shelley on the web www.ShelleyPenney.com

Another animal study has shown the importance of having company to prevent cancer occurring and in reducing of the likelihood of death from cancer. It is clear that for both animals and humans having good friends definitely improves the quality of life, and now, possibly, lack of friends might even be a matter of life or death. However researchers are still unsure of many of the mechanisms by which social isolation might contribute to the development of cancer.

We all know of wonderful people who have had lots of friends who socialized a good deal and who still died of cancer. I am not saying that not having friends is the one cause of cancer.

But we need to acknowledge the increasing evidence that having good friends can be a buffer to both prevent cancer occurring in the first place and if it does occur, to improve ones chances of a better outcome – either a complete recovery or a longer time till death. My own research findings also come to the same conclusions.

I have never had a doctor ask me about my relationships with friends, or even within my family, and yet there is clear evidence of their importance to health. As I work with doctors I’ve asked a few of them why this lack of interest in patients’ sociability might be. Their response was that it is not their business to interfere, or even take an interest in, a patient’s relationships. It is outside their sphere of management.

As you are unlikely to hear from your doctor that good relationships are beneficial to your health right down to the cellular and organ level then you need to take the message on board from elsewhere and take responsibility for improving your relationships as part of your overall health care.

So if you know you are short on friends don’t take it badly. Friends die. They shift away. They or you can change. Or you might just look at your current friends and decide that they no longer contribute sufficient positive aspects to your life.

One of the patients in my big study had no friends at all when she first got cancer. Apart from a loving husband and two absent children she had no positive input from people into her life. She started to deal with her cancer by paying for human contact. She paid for a masseur, for time with a homeopath, joined a healing group and slowly made progress from there.

Another loner was a farmer who lived in the outback miles from anywhere. He gave up farming and moved into the city. His situation was different because he was naturally gregarious and made friends easily.

You don’t need lots of friends, somewhere between five and nine seems to work well from a health perspective. Family can count in the friend mix, but you are looking for people who contribute positively to your well-being and you to theirs. You are looking for at least one person who makes you feel significant, one who makes you feel connected and loved, one who can be trusted to help you and gives you a sense of security and someone who gives a sense of fun, enjoyment and variety in life.

As my study showed sometimes you must adapt, even to purchase the support you need and this is a positive alternative if your natural circle of friends is missing a category of need. It makes sense to have a good group of friends. You may not be thinking in terms of your own natural cancer therapies but friendships are good and improve your quality of life. Take the time to consider what your friends add to your life and if necessary set out to increase the number of positive people around you.

Dr Harriet Denz-Penhey is an internationally recognized health researcher who has done groundbreaking research into patient self care in serious illness. The web site http://www.cancerremedies.org discusses aspects of natural cancer treatment and remedies for good general health.

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Has mainstream science and the medical established been overlooking what could be a very effective treatment protocol?

Is it possible that the cure for cancer or at the very least an effective cancer treatment for some reason has not been pursued by mainstream medicine? What if qualified PhD researchers have validated its efficacy?

After many decades of pursuing a cancer cure, why is it that we still don’t have a treatment protocol that works in the vast majority of cases?

We probably do have that treatment protocol! How could this be possible but nobody knows about it? The unfortunate reality of cancer research is simply this. It appears that those with the money to fund cancer research rightfully expect a hefty return on that investment given that cancer research is a very expensive undertaking. That expectation is reasonable enough, because people with money to invest have an expectation that they will earn a decent return on their investment.

What if a cancer cure had been discovered but if it had no likelihood of returning any payback on the investment. Would you invest additional money to put it through the necessary clinical trials? Probably not! And no sane business person in their right mind would blame you. Why? The answer really is very simple. People in the business of finding cures for cancer are really in the business of finding cures for cancer that can return a hefty profit to their bottom line.

Let us not confuse ourselves! Cancer is “BIG BUSINESS” which by definition means a return on every dollar invested. If it were you, would you continue to market a product that works some of the time but it has hefty returns? Or would you market a product that works most of the time but has zero returns and would effectively put you out of business?

I don’t know what your answer is but I know what their answer is. Better to make tons of money and save a few people rather than make no money and save a lot of people.

Common sense will tell most of us that if we could put a man on the moon in 10 years then it stands to reason that we should have far better treatment protocols that would result in an effective cancer cure after 70 years of clinical research.

We already have that cancer cure or at a very minimum a cancer treatment protocol that turns cancer into a chronic disease as opposed to a death sentence.

It is our individual responsibility to determine what researchers have figured out over the last 70 years that could save our lives. But, for whatever reason mainstream medicine and organizations that conduct clinical trials have decided that it is not in their collective best interest to promote because the return on their investment just isn’t worth it.

Do your homework and don’t let your lack of knowledge leave you in a situation where you think you have no good options or real hope for a cancer cure!

My mother died from cancer when I was 16. During a medical exam, my doctor saw something suspicious on my X-ray and since I was a smoker, and therefore at an increased risk for cancer, sent me for a CAT scan. Knowing that I could have cancer forced me to find a legitimate alternative cancer treatment. I have since written a book to share this information. You can visit my website http://www.howtostopcancer.com to learn more.

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